Go To Special in Excel

Have you ever looked at an MS Excel worksheet and wondered how long it was going to take you to select only those cells that contain text or formulas or numbers or those cells that have errors?

Plus, while you’re wondering that, you’re just dreading the old Ctrl key + click, click and click some more on all cells that meet the criteria.

Maybe you’re trying to protect the text of the file and need all those cells selected or maybe you’re looking to format all the numbers differently. Whatever your situation, you need to select only the cells containing a specific type of information and you need a quick way to select them all at once.

Seems like a perfectly reasonable request to me, so let’s take a look at a way to get the job done efficiently!

You obviously need to have the file open and be on the worksheet with which you’re looking to search. Have only one cell selected as well. If you have several highlighted, it will only search through the highlighted cells and not the whole worksheet.